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New comment by inkcapmushroom in "Spotify will start reserving concert tickets for fans"

inkcapmushroom — Thu, 21 May 2026 19:10:51 +0000

Spotify is another entity dipping into the limited pool of available tickets and further limiting supply. I don't pay for/use Spotify and don't want to, so as far as I'm concerned this is only worsening the problem by further constraining the supply of tickets available to me.

New comment by inkcapmushroom in "How long-distance couples use digital games to facilitate intimacy (2025)"

inkcapmushroom — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 19:30:20 +0000

Thank you for this game. I played it a whole lot as an early teen and have lots of fond memories from it.

New comment by inkcapmushroom in "Earthquake scientists reveal how overplowing weakens soil at experimental farm"

inkcapmushroom — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 13:46:21 +0000

The modern industrial farming complex is designed to treat every field as identical, and to allow as few people as possible to work as big an area as possible. That allows for standardizing methods and optimizing the output per acre. Tilling the soil is mainly for aeration: the farm equipment rolling over the fields (which is needed to massively reduce labor costs) compact them, so you need to loosen the soil again. It's also for weeding; if you till before you plant you uproot any plants already growing there (weeding by hand is extremely labor intensive). It also allows you to mix compost and other beneficial components into your soil to further aerate it and give space for roots to grow. It's all to give your field a "blank canvas" that you apply your crops to, where you can just dump about 2-3x the recommended amount of fertilizer into it and not worry about the particular conditions of the soil itself beforehand.

New comment by inkcapmushroom in "Cyberattack on vehicle breathalyzer company leaves drivers stranded in the US"

inkcapmushroom — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 18:07:32 +0000

Where I live I would half to walk about a half day to get to the nearest place that sells any kind of food and back, which is a 7/11 gas station. To get to a real grocery store and return would require a full day's travel on foot (just checked google maps, 4.5 hours one-way to the closest one). There is no public transportation option at all, the only buses are school buses until you get much closer to a major city. Driving is a necessity in such places.

I live in a well populated East Coast state, so it's not like I'm even really far out in the sticks too, there are many places which are even worse off in these regards.

New comment by inkcapmushroom in "A new Bigfoot documentary helps explain our conspiracy-minded era"

inkcapmushroom — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 18:46:01 +0000

They were baiting it with carcasses! Everyone knows Bigfoots are vegans and prefer chai soy milk lattes.

New comment by inkcapmushroom in "Half million 'Words with Spaces' missing from dictionaries"

inkcapmushroom — Wed, 25 Feb 2026 21:16:31 +0000

I have definitely used canned goods and household chores in sentences before.

New comment by inkcapmushroom in "Elvish as She Is Spoke [pdf]"

inkcapmushroom — Wed, 18 Feb 2026 20:49:30 +0000

I think we also need kenming and kemning at a minimum.

New comment by inkcapmushroom in "Y Combinator will let founders receive funds in stablecoins"

inkcapmushroom — Tue, 03 Feb 2026 20:17:15 +0000

Yeah but my 401(k) tax statement paperwork doesn't make me feel like a pirate.

New comment by inkcapmushroom in "Claude's new constitution"

inkcapmushroom — Thu, 22 Jan 2026 19:40:01 +0000

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_war_crimes

New comment by inkcapmushroom in "Sins of the Children"

inkcapmushroom — Mon, 19 Jan 2026 16:19:43 +0000

The Expanse has some environmentalist characters in it, but I think the series as a whole doesn't tend that way. In my reading of the series it portrays the human need to consume and reach further out as just as natural as anything else.

New comment by inkcapmushroom in "Our approach to advertising"

inkcapmushroom — Fri, 16 Jan 2026 20:28:56 +0000

Do you have an example of a text or site written in a way that's been AEO'd? I'd be interested to know what that looks like, especially if it sounds cult-ish.

New comment by inkcapmushroom in "So, you’ve hit an age gate. What now?"

inkcapmushroom — Wed, 14 Jan 2026 20:31:48 +0000

I have a similar problem, I do swing dancing and all the information for dances in my area are exclusively posted on Facebook by a wide variety of people who are putting on the dances. I can try and go to each individual organizing a dance and try and get them off Facebook, but that's making their job harder when we've already had lots of people stop organizing events post-COVID, and the system they have now seems to really work for getting new people into dancing that haven't done it before with lots of new faces each dance. So I just go along with it.

New comment by inkcapmushroom in "Ozempic is changing the foods Americans buy"

inkcapmushroom — Mon, 12 Jan 2026 18:24:32 +0000

Now I'm picturing someone peeling their Zebra Cakes and cutting it into slices.

New comment by inkcapmushroom in "CRISPR fungus: Protein-packed, sustainable, and tastes like meat"

inkcapmushroom — Fri, 12 Dec 2025 14:23:20 +0000

I wish they would just say what's producing the protein. "Our cultures" and talk of fermentation makes me think it's just yeast maybe?

New comment by inkcapmushroom in "A woman on a mission to photograph every species of hummingbird"

inkcapmushroom — Wed, 26 Nov 2025 19:12:32 +0000

This summer I woke up early and stepped outside in some bright tie-dye. I had a hummingbird approach me within about 4 feet and check out my shirt, obviously trying to decide if I was just a really weird flower or something. It was really incredible to interact with such an interesting bird (even though I'm sure he was annoyed that I wasn't in fact a giant flower).

Nice documentary about hummingbirds: https://youtu.be/vGMJZSfVW1M?si=m-LmIO9vgt7l-nV4

New comment by inkcapmushroom in "The last-ever penny will be minted today in Philadelphia"

inkcapmushroom — Wed, 12 Nov 2025 20:31:06 +0000

What if the stores detain you and force you to work in their perfume department to pay off the million-dollar multi-item fee they just thought up? What if they also do a bunch of allergen testing on you to figure out what you're allergic to and then make you exclusively sell perfumes containing those allergens?

All because of that darn penny-rounding.

New comment by inkcapmushroom in "I may have found a way to spot U.S. at-sea strikes before they're announced"

inkcapmushroom — Thu, 06 Nov 2025 21:15:15 +0000

Well, the murder, for one.

New comment by inkcapmushroom in "Global Peace Index 2025"

inkcapmushroom — Wed, 17 Sep 2025 20:12:26 +0000

The index is not just about "how peaceful is the average citizen's life", which is one part of it, but also includes other things like how many wars the country participates in, how much of their government budget goes to military, etc. You shouldn't get a good "Global Peace Index Score" while exporting violence across the globe.

New comment by inkcapmushroom in "Doorbell prankster that tormented residents of apartments turns out to be a slug"

inkcapmushroom — Fri, 12 Sep 2025 15:04:58 +0000

Those are its eye stalks. I don't imagine pressing with a lot of force on its eyestalks is something a slug likes to do, but then again I haven't asked any yet.

New comment by inkcapmushroom in "Charlie Kirk killed at event in Utah"

inkcapmushroom — Thu, 11 Sep 2025 14:58:59 +0000

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/search/research-news/5504/

https://rockinst.org/blog/public-mass-shootings-around-the-w...

The US is an outlier in how many guns we own, with about 1/3 of American adults owning guns, and we are also an extreme outlier in mass shootings unless you compare us to places that lack rule of law. How many more people need guns before that mass shooting number goes down to 0, do you think?